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SPT People and Place Programme 2026/27

Over 2026/27, SPT are continuing to deliver the People and Place Programme with over £6.6 million of projects across the region being delivered by 21 delivery partners. This includes a continued remit from 2025/26 with funding supporting sustainable travel projects, as well as a dedicated pool of grant funding for community groups to support community-level change through the SPT Community Fund.

The 2026/27 Programme is currently underway, with 40 projects being delivered across the SPT region.

Projects Delivered

Delivery Partner:
Agile City

Total Funding Award:
£606,500.00

Project Overview:
Civic Street's Active Travel and Sustainability Hub is an addition to the existing site at Civic House in Glasgow. Civic House is an events venue, coworking space, and community hub for many organisations in Glasgow. The project will deliver infrastructure to support further active travel to this area of Glasgow, complementing cycling infrastucture improvements already made to the surrounding area.

Delivery Partner:
Bike for Good

Total Funding Award:
£18,500.00

Project Overview:
Better By Bike is a Bike for Good project running through the Transport to Employment fund, and this capital allocation allows the project to purchase bikes for those involved with the project.

Delivery Partner:
CoMo UK

Total Funding Award:
£122,625.00

Project Overview:
CoMo UK's Pop-up mobility hubs are small, moveable, modular parklets that have planting, seating, a bike repair stand, and act as a pop-up bike hire station to allow more people to access active travel. The CoMoUK team host activities and events from the hub, including led walks, to embed the hub within the community and promote active travel for everyday journeys. 

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£750,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland, working with partners such as local authorities, social housing providers, workplaces, and schools, provide their expertise and funding to increase access to cycle parking and storage. This helps tackle common barriers to cycling, by aiding people with places to store their bikes at home, work, or school.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£200,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland provide support through funding and expertise to Workplaces in the SPT region to promote cycling as a method of commuting to and from work. This can be through cycle storage, shower and changing facilities, or other methods where appropriate.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£120,000.00

Project Overview:
Cycling Scotland have provided a number of campus cycling officers at further and higher education sites across the SPT region, who are tasked with the responsibility of desgining, implementing, and evaluating a cycling project. This has the benefit of creating full time job roles, developing capacity across the sector, and improving cycling services at these campuses. Furthermore the project will expand into creating roles for inmates at Barlinnie, and provide them with bike mechanic qualifications to utilise when they are back in society.

Delivery Partner:
Cycling UK

Total Funding Award:
£1,352,699.00

Project Overview:
The Cycle Access Fund is an access to bikes grant fund, enabling organisations to support access to bikes in their community, and is particularly focused on supporting people that are financially struggling. The CAF has been open to any organisation that works closely with its community, such as offering continued support through its activities so individuals are able to use their cycles for the purpose intended

Delivery Partner:
Cycling UK

Total Funding Award:
£99,000.00

Project Overview:
Play Together on Pedals (PTOP) is a pre-school family focused project. It aims to give every pre-school child the opportunity to develop skills and confidence to learn to ride a bike. PTOP is a project delivered by Cycling UK, aimed at helping children learn to ride a bicycle and develop cycling confidence from an early age. 

Delivery Partner:
East Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£177,950.00

Project Overview:
This project is a continuation of the 25/26 project due to a major overhaul of EV infrastructure procurement in Ayrshire. A contract is to be awarded in March 2026 to allow work to continue for this project, with EV chargers being installed and setup being the last step of the project.

Delivery Partner:
East Dunbartonshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£30,000.00

Project Overview:
Continuation of East Dunbartonshire Council's Bikes and Cycle Storage installation project.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£94,500.00

Project Overview:
Women on Wheels is a community cycling hub based in Govanhill, Glasgow, providing a service, designed by, tailor-made and led by women for women. Prior to WW there was no dedicated service which was specifically aimed at empowering and enabling women to overcome barriers to cycling.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£49,000.00

Project Overview:
Play Together on Pedals (PTOP) is a pre-school family focused project. It aims to give every pre-school child the opportunity to develop skills and confidence to learn to ride a bike. PTOP is a project delivered by Cycling UK, aimed at helping children learn to ride a bicycle and develop cycling confidence from an early age. 

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£202,500.00

Project Overview:
This project is one of Bike for Good's key funding streams, a charity and social enterprise based in Glasgow that aims to provide access to low cost, quality bikes through refurbishment and donations.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£9,000.00

Project Overview:
Go Eco Glasgow will be delivered in partnership with Glasgow Eco Trust. The project will provide a coordinated approach to local active travel and sustainable transport issues across these 16 workplaces helping to increase their capacity and capability to take action. The work will focus on expanding school and workplace travel plans, developing existing plans from bronze to silver or silver to gold, and enacting action plans developed as part of the 8 workplace and school travel plans created in 2025/6, with a focus on active travel and car sharing.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£178,000.00

Project Overview:
The project will support underrepresented and disadvantaged communities in North-east and North Glasgow by providing bikes, training, and maintenance workshops. These activities will improve access to cycling and boost confidence among participants.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£63,300.00

Project Overview:
Drumchapel Cycle Hub will deliver Learn - Repair – Ride project providing a comprehensive pathway of activities and support for families in the community to build active travel habits that will benefit overall health and well-being. Families, individuals and organisations have access to free or low-cost services which are particularly beneficial for those in poverty or on reduced incomes, and health referred.

Delivery Partner:
Glasgow City Council

Total Funding Award:
£79,000.00

Project Overview:
Connecting Communities is a project based around empowering those in communities to embrace active travel as part of their everyday life, by embedding development officers within communities and offering a wide range of cycling and walking activities for those of all abilities.

Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council

Total Funding Award:
£32,000.00

Project Overview:
This project is a further development of the 25/26 project, continuing auditing of existing cycle storage with a view to replace existing outdated storage on a targeted basis.

Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council

Total Funding Award:
£25,000.00

Project Overview:
This project will allow for the continuation and evolution of the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust (formerly Sustrans) embedded iBike officer.

Delivery Partner:
Inverclyde Council

Total Funding Award:
£12,000.00

Project Overview:
Capital project to allow for the installation of benches and resting places along existing active travel routes to improve accessibility.

Delivery Partner:
Living Streets

Total Funding Award:
£103,733.05

Project Overview:
WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably at least once a week for a month, they are rewarded with a WOW badge. The initiative sees 59% fewer car journeys to the school gates, and 18% more journeys walking and wheeling all the way to school.

Delivery Partner:
LLTNP

Total Funding Award:
£40,000.00

Project Overview:
The LLTNP Mobility Partnership is a strategic partnership between all partners that operate in and around the national park, aiming to support the operations of the park and create a sustainable environment for low carbon journeys into and around the park.

Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£84,934.35

Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council's Travel Smart Programme aims to reduce carbon footprint, save money, and improve health throughout workplaces in North Ayrshire. This is a free service that employers can access to help them achieve Cycling Scotland's 'Cycle Friendly Employer Award', and allow employees access to Dr Bike Sessions, Led Rides, or bikes to loan.

Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£100,000.00

Project Overview:
This project will allow North Lanarkshire Council to grow their transport planning team to help deliver their pipeline of projects.

Delivery Partner:
North Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£55,000.00

Project Overview:
Continuation of the ongoing work to improve RTPI provision across key corridors in North Lanarkshire.

Delivery Partner:
Renfrewshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£50,000.00

Project Overview:
Upgrade of an existing remote pelican crossing to a puffin crossing on one of the most heavily bus trafficked corridors in Renfrewshire.

Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling

Total Funding Award:
£272,240.00

Project Overview:
Rock Up and Ride is a project that was launched in 2021 and has been delivering free and accessible cycling sessions across Scotland since then. 80% of RUAR participants in 2024/25 across Scotland were under the age of 16, with the young people strand working to encourage and empower young people to cycle as part of their everyday lives.

Delivery Partner:
Scottish Cycling

Total Funding Award:
£307,240.00

Project Overview:
Rock Up and Ride is a project that was launched in 2021 and has been delivering free and accessible cycling sessions across Scotland since then. The project has developed into a number of strands, with their inclusive communities strand focusing on those from more deprived communities, and those that are underrepresented in the cycling landscape within Scotland to encourage uptake of cycling for everyday journeys.

Delivery Partner:
South Lanarkshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£15,000.00

Project Overview:
Walk 'n' Roll is a series of led walks and rides within Cambuslang to highlight some of the existing infrastructure available, and aim to encourage people to encorporate these routes into their daily routines.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£38,626.00

Project Overview:
This project has funded 1 FTE position within the Policy and Planning team at SPT to deliver the People and Place Programme.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£38,626.00

Project Overview:
This project has funded 1 FTE position within the Policy and Planning team at SPT to deliver the People and Place Community Fund.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£50,000.00

Project Overview:
This project is to support SPT to make improvements to Subway and Bus stations, allowing these locations to operate as active travel hubs and support multi-modal sustainable transport journeys.

Delivery Partner:
SPT

Total Funding Award:
£563,665.39

Project Overview:
People and Place Community Fund allocation - supporting sustaiable travel behaviour change initiatives being delivered by community organisations at local level.

Delivery Partner:
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

Total Funding Award:
£25,922.00

Project Overview:
Continuation of project to enhance MyBus scheduling software.

Delivery Partner:
TravelKnowHow

Total Funding Award:
£15,083.90

Project Overview:
Travelknowhow provide bespoke wordplace travel plans to workplaces across Scotland, in partnership with all 7 RTP's through People and Place funding.

Delivery Partner:
North Ayrshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£157,000.00

Project Overview:
North Ayrshire Council's Travel Smart Programme aims to reduce carbon footprint, save money, and improve health throughout workplaces in North Ayrshire. This is a free service that employers can access to help them achieve Cycling Scotland's 'Cycle Friendly Employer Award', and allow employees access to Dr Bike Sessions, Led Rides, or bikes to loan.

Delivery Partner:
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust

Total Funding Award:
£122,570.00

Project Overview:
This project will allow for a tailored program of work to enable packages of barrier removal on NCN routes within Local Authorities in the SPT region. WWCT will help LA's prepare tender packages for removals of groups of barriers to maximise potential impact.

Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£127,625.00

Project Overview:
Walking Scotland are delivering their Walking Communities Programme within the SPT region. Through working in partnership with local people and partners in villages, towns, and cities, this programme supports projects aiming to improve the physical environment within these areas, empower local collaborators to champion these projects, and support overall behaviour change initiatives to support more walking journeys everyday.

Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£263,000.00

Project Overview:
Walking Scotland have launched a community fund for path improvements across the SPT region. Projects can apply with a maximum value of £10,000, for things such as new paths, existing path improvements, lighting, seating, and more to allow more access to walking for everyday journeys.

Delivery Partner:
Walking Scotland

Total Funding Award:
£94,600.00

Project Overview:
Walking Scotland are delivering Walking Schools Programmes in high schools across Scotland that respond to local needs and address barriers to active travel. These programmes encourgae walkign to and from school, and deliver incentives such as the Step Count challenge to empower and encourage young people to embrace walking more throughout their lives.

Delivery Partner:
West Dunbartonshire Council

Total Funding Award:
£20,000.00

Project Overview:
This project will allow for the creation of a mobility hub in West Dunbartonshire to encourage behaviour change. It will aim to improve the ease of multi-modal travel.

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Transport Scotland

This work was supported through the Scottish Government funded People and Place Programme, supporting the shared ambition that by 2030, Scotland's communities are shaped around people and place - making walking, wheeling and cycling to be most popular mode of travel for short, everyday journeys.